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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11775 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 437,138 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7860 times as science)
avg rating 4.22 — 390,213 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 6659 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 179,816 ratings — published 1976
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6525 times as science)
avg rating 4.08 — 182,501 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6290 times as science)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,052,707 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6085 times as science)
avg rating 4.39 — 147,608 ratings — published 1980
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5616 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 743,264 ratings — published 2010
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5488 times as science)
avg rating 4.14 — 178,628 ratings — published 2014
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4961 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 115,378 ratings — published 1859
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4573 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,234 ratings — published 1999
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 4413 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 74,206 ratings — published 1995
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3897 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 221,683 ratings — published 2003
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 3826 times as science)
avg rating 4.27 — 202,759 ratings — published 1985
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3676 times as science)
avg rating 4.36 — 50,008 ratings — published 2016
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3637 times as science)
avg rating 4.38 — 190,573 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3453 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 103,778 ratings — published 2010
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3376 times as science)
avg rating 4.15 — 72,138 ratings — published 2014
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3180 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,894 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 3141 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 224,341 ratings — published 1985
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3133 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 415,543 ratings — published 1997
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3100 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 74,085 ratings — published 2010
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3050 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 54,058 ratings — published 2009
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2925 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 58,833 ratings — published 2014
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 2858 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,794 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2749 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 254,321 ratings — published 2015
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2737 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 269,687 ratings — published 2006
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2679 times as science)
avg rating 4.28 — 75,309 ratings — published 2018
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2598 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,064 ratings — published 2016
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2595 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 27,545 ratings — published 1962
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2522 times as science)
avg rating 4.32 — 84,844 ratings — published 2019
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2512 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 38,634 ratings — published 1987
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 2509 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 57,971 ratings — published 2010
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2417 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 49,714 ratings — published 1979
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2415 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,743 ratings — published 1994
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2389 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 42,948 ratings — published 2001
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2378 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 39,776 ratings — published 1986
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2234 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 43,333 ratings — published 2008
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2193 times as science)
avg rating 4.07 — 75,782 ratings — published 2015
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2192 times as science)
avg rating 4.10 — 39,787 ratings — published 2008
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2129 times as science)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,885 ratings — published 2006
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2086 times as science)
avg rating 4.41 — 24,057 ratings — published 2017
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2085 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,657 ratings — published 2018
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2083 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 26,859 ratings — published 1999
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 2047 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,195 ratings — published 1994
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2008 times as science)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,402 ratings — published 2012
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 1999 times as science)
avg rating 3.85 — 58,470 ratings — published 2008
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1987 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 26,579 ratings — published 2008
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1986 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 32,132 ratings — published 2017
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1984 times as science)
avg rating 4.15 — 114,658 ratings — published 1994
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1950 times as science)
avg rating 4.35 — 37,368 ratings — published 2020
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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